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“You’re looking at someone who would get the belt every day. ‘Will you Shut up, Susan!’ – whack!” Boyle said. “I was often left behind at school because of one thing or another. I was a slow learner. I’m just I’m a wee bit slower at picking things up than other people. So you get left behind in a system that just wants to rush on, you know?”

The 48-year-old former homebody has talked about being deprived of oxygen as a baby and growing up with a learning disability. She said she now understands that back in the day “there was discipline for the sake of discipline.”

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“[But] it’s all very different now,” Boyle told the Mirror. “I think teachers are taught to understand children with learning disabilities a lot better.”

Despite her achievements, Boyle revealed her childhood tormentors had left a mark.

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“There’s nothing worse than another person having power over you by bullying you and you not knowing how to get rid of that thing,” she recalled.